Tanarctidae

The Tanarctidae are a family of tardigrades. The family was named and described by Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen and Jeanne Renaud-Mornant in 1980.

Genera

There are three genera:

• Actinarctus <small>Schulz, 1935</small>
• Tanarctus <small>Renaud-Debyser, 1959</small>
• Zioella <small>Renaud-Mornant, 1987</small>

References

Further reading

• Renaud-Mornant, (1980), Description de trois espèces nouvelles du genre Tanarctus Renaud-Debyser, 1959, et création de la sous-famille des Tanarctinae, subfam. nov. (Tardigrada, Heterotardigrada).' (Description of Three New Species of the Genus Tanarctus) Bulletin of the National Natural History Museum (Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle), Section A: Zoology, Biology and Animal, vol. 2, no 1, p.&nbsp;129-141.